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Chapter 11, Problem 13TYU
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There are five basic tastes—sour, salty, sweet, bitter, and "umami." Salt is detected when the concentration of salt outside of a taste bud cell is higher than that inside of it, and ion channels allow the passive leakage of Na+ into the cell. The resulting change in membrane potential (seeConcept 7.4) sends the "salty" signal to the brain. Umami is a savory taste generated by glutamate (glutamicacid, found in monosodium glutamate, or MSG), which is used as a flavor enhancer in foods such as taco-flavored tortilla chips. The glutamate reeeptor is a GPCR, which, when bound, initiates a signaling pathway that ends with a cellular response, pereeived by you as "taste." If you eat a regulär potato chipand then rinse your mouth, you will no longer taste salt. But if you eat a flavored tortilla chip and then rinse, the taste persists. (Try it!) Proposea possiblc explanation for this difference.
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Identify which of the following best describes the central taste pathways. Choose the correct option.
O a. Axons of all 12 cranial nerves terminate in the gustatory nucleus of the brain stem, which projects to the ventral posterior medial nucleus of the
thalamus, which in turn sends axons to the primary gustatory cortex and the insula
O b. Axons of three cranial nerves terminate in the gustatory nucleus of the brain stem, which projects to the ventral posterior medial nucleus of the
thalamus, which in turn sends axons to the primary gustatory cortex and the insula
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Compare the mechanisms of the receptor molecules for salty and sour taste; the taste-receptor molecules for sweetness, bitterness, and umami; and odor-receptor molecules (Indicate if a given sense uses a GPCR, an ion channel etc and how the downstream signal might be different). Drawing is good for this type of question.
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